Are you a Macbassador?Do you ever wear a kilt to work, sport tartan, or tell friends and neighbors why you're proud to be a Mac alum? If so, you're already a Macbassador!

Macbassador
of the Month

Gayle Winegar '75is an active alumni volunteer and donor. She's
been involved in too many ways to list, but they include serving on
the Alumni Board and co-chairing its student support committee. Gayle's enthusiasm and passion is inspired by Macalester
students and grads. "I love the opportunity to get to know these
amazing students!"

Winegar also gives
generously to the Annual Fund, hosts international students,
participates in the new Exploreship program that introduces current
students to careers, and helps network students with alumni.

What is a Macbassador?

Being a Macbassador simply means sharing your pride and visibly demonstrating your support for Macalester. It's fun, easy, and we need you.

There are many ways for alumni to be Macbassadors. Join our worldwide alumni community through MacDirect. Host a student or share your expertise as a guest lecturer. Make a gift. Come to Reunion!

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Use this form to tell us what you’d like to be involved in. We promise we'll follow up quickly and connect you with rewarding Macalester activities. Each month, we'll profile a Macbassador in Mac Wire and on the Web.

Your active involvement in your college matters. Alumni involvement can help improve every aspect of the college—from recruiting students to enhancing the on-campus student experience.

Macalester will celebrate the 136th anniversary of receiving its charter during the Founders' Day Celebration on Friday, March 5, from 8:30 p.m. to midnight in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center. The entire Macalester community is welcome to attend.

This year will establish a fresh concept to the annual event as we focus each year on Macalester's culture and history in a different decade. This year will celebrate the 1970s. Several events lead up to the main celebration:

Former President John B. Davis, Jr. will take part in a panel discussion at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 1, in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall (open to alumni and friends).

Students will get funky with some "far-out" tunes at '70s Karaoke Night on Tuesday, March 2, in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center.

Pushball, a recently revived Macalester tradition, will be played at noon Friday, March 5, on the Great Lawn.

A standing-room only Haiti Relief Concert organized by Macalester students raised more than $14,000 for earthquake recovery efforts. The concert featured performances by student groups Caribbean Student Association, Afrika, Bodacious, The Sirens, The African Music Ensemble, The Traditions, and Scotch Tape, as well as Kwame Tsikata '05 (M.anifest) and other guest artists.

Pedro Noguera is this year's keynote speaker at the American Studies Conference.

Macalester holds its 11th annual American Studies Conference titled "Freedom to Learn: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline" on Thursday-Friday, Feb. 25-26. The conference kicks off with a keynote address by school reform expert and urban sociologist Pedro Noguera, professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. His talk, titled "Challenging Racial Inequality in Our Schools," will examine how public schools are influenced by social and economic conditions. He will discuss the hurdles society faces in providing equal education to all, and explore solutions that are already working to overcome them. The keynote address happens 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, in the Alexander G. Hill Ballroom, Kagin Commons.

Held every February, Macalester's American Studies Conference brings internationally renowned scholars to campus. The conference is open to the public. Sponsored by the American Studies and Education Studies departments, and the Bush Foundation.
· More about the 11th annual American Studies Conference

Kate Ryan Reiling '00, left, is the new women's soccer head coach. Annie Glieber, right, is the new volleyball head coach.

New head coaches have been hired for Macalester women's soccer and volleyball teams: Kate Ryan Reiling ’00 and Annie Glieber.

Coach Ryan Reiling was captain of Macalester's 1998 team, which won the NCAA Division III championship. She was director of coaching and player development at CC United Club in Chaska, Minn.; assistant coach at St. Catherine University; and assistant to John Leaney at Macalester from 2004-2007. Leaney retired from coaching the women's soccer team last year.

Coach Glieber comes to Macalester from Carroll University in Waukesha, Wis., where she successfully rebuilt a last-place Midwest Conference team and guided them to the 2007 MWC conference, conference tourney championship, and the NCAA playoffs. At Carroll, she was also the senior woman administrator and the director of the recreation sports program. She replaces Stephanie Schleuder, who recently stepped down from being the volleyball team's head coach to work with the Athletics Department in other capacities.
· More about Annie Glieber
· More about Kate Ryan Reiling '00

The Theatre and Dance Department presents Peter Weiss's "Marat/Sade" in the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Main Stage Theatre this month. Framed as a play within a play, Weiss's text grapples with the ethics and poetics of the French Revolution as seen through the gaze of two of the era's most notorious provocateurs and a cast of prisoners. It was first performed in West Berlin at the Schiller Theater in 1964.

Alumni and their guests will return to campus for Reunion 2010, happening June 4-6. Registration for the big weekend opens next month.

One highlight of Reunion 2010 is a new event, Breakfast with Brian, scheduled for Saturday morning. Serving as an official kickoff to the many activities planned for Saturday, this event will be time for reunion attendees to eat together, celebrate this year's Alumni Award winners, and enjoy a quick update on what's happening at Macalester.

The Alumni Board will travel to campus for their spring meeting March 5-7. In addition to business and committee meetings, they will meet Macalester's new faculty at a reception, and attend the Founders' Day Celebration.

The James Wallace Society dinner is held each year on the Thursday before reunion weekend. The event honors and thanks members of the James Wallace Society—individuals who have made a commitment to Macalester's future through an estate provision or life income gift. This year's James Wallace Society dinner will be held on Thursday, June 3, at 6 p.m. in the Alexander G. Hill Ballroom of Kagin Commons.

The Macalester Concert Choir, under the direction of Eugene Rogers, will perform in New York and Delaware next month. Alumni in the region are planning to attend the choir's final concert of the tour at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 21, at First Presbyterian Church, 12 West 12th Street, New York City. Alumni are invited to meet with the choir immediately after the concert at a special reception in the Esther Morrow Room. Please email Stephen Sporer if you plan to attend.
· Learn more about the Macalester Concert Choir